Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Courses
Awards
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Sriram Sekar

Devops Lead

Summary

Lead DevOps Engineer with 17 years of overall experience and 12 years of Devops experience. Proven track record in implementing automated solutions through python / shell scripting. Working experience in public and private cloud production support.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages

Work History

MTS1

PayPal India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
04.2012 - Current
  • Leading the DevOps team of 30 engineers, providing technical suggestions/support for the team
  • Responsible for troubleshooting deployment issues in private cloud and public cloud (GKE), working closely with PayPal Command Center
  • As part of Incident management, driving P0/P1 dev incidents to closure engaging respective product teams in the incident call
  • Review the work report every week and unblock the team to complete the work on time
  • Identify redundant tasks and suggest automated solutions
  • As part of engineering excellence, review the support tickets and provide input for product teams to improve the quality
  • Conduct monthly customer connects to understand their pain points, and fix long pending issues by working with product teams
  • Responsible for creating puppet modules for managing production
  • NFS mounts
  • Key Custodian for SSL Certificate management
  • Responsible for maintaining the availability of a global testing environment
  • Been part of developing Helium – Security patching tool for GCP Dev
  • Environment
  • Leading Jfrog Artifactory setup for Disaster Recovery
  • Leading CSSF Security hardening initiative for GCP Dev environment
  • Maintaining AVI load balancer for the dev environment (Creation of
  • VIP, maintenance and troubleshooting issues)
  • Maintain and Support Puppet modules for Developer and QA platform
  • Sound understanding of Google Cloud Platform, onboard and manage developers and their projects including compute engine and load balancing
  • Working Knowledge in various PayPal-specific tools such as ALM
  • CMPAAS, Genesis(GKE), Nyx, RCS, and ICM/TOPO
  • Extensive knowledge of DevNoc (Platform built using ICINGA for monitoring developer tools and systems) and implemented Python scripts for custom monitoring
  • Training RCGs org-wide on developer tools and products
  • Traveled onsite for GCP migration activities and other initiatives.

Software Engineer, Data Mining

PayPal India Pvt Ltd
Chennai
04.2011 - 04.2012
  • Mine voice of customer data using the 'Tovac' mining tool
  • Analyze the result and identify patterns which are affecting PayPal customers
  • Raise bug, follow up and ensure that is fixed in Live.

Software Engineer

PayPal India Pvt Ltd
Chennai
07.2009 - 04.2011
  • Created automation framework for backend transactions using
  • Python
  • As feature lead completed test case preparation, FQA, RQA, UAT, RB/RF and Area Cert
  • Involved in Test Plans, Test case reviews, and TDD reviews
  • Involved in Product discussion and feature enhancements
  • Mentored new joiners with technical training and presentations
  • Performed UAT with FDR, STAR, MASTER CARD, Bank of America, Wells
  • Fargo, JPMC, Deutsche Bank and Citibank.

Software Engineer

CSC India Ltd
Chennai
08.2006 - 06.2009
  • Worked on the payments team and gained domain knowledge on
  • Debit cards, Credit cards and Bank transfers
  • Created a test case generation tool and created a script to upload test cases to eCase.

Education

MCA - Computer Science And Programming

SASTRA University
06.2003 - 05.2005

BCA -

Bharathidasan University (SKSS Arts College)
06.2000 - 05.2003

Skills

GCP

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Courses

AWS Cloud Practitioner

Aug 2022 - Present

Architecting on AWS

Sep 2022 - Present

Awards

Best Performer of the quarter

Received this award multiple times.

Best team award - CIP

Card Issuance Platform team has won the best team award where I had been part of the team.

Timeline

MTS1

PayPal India Pvt Ltd
04.2012 - Current

Software Engineer, Data Mining

PayPal India Pvt Ltd
04.2011 - 04.2012

Software Engineer

PayPal India Pvt Ltd
07.2009 - 04.2011

Software Engineer

CSC India Ltd
08.2006 - 06.2009

MCA - Computer Science And Programming

SASTRA University
06.2003 - 05.2005

BCA -

Bharathidasan University (SKSS Arts College)
06.2000 - 05.2003
Sriram SekarDevops Lead